Quitting activities with negative expected outcomes has significant opportunity costs if not utilized.

“you're totally allowed to fold remember when Steve Dubner and Steven Levitt wrote about this in Freakonomics like the benefit of quitting we do not spend enough time encouraging people to quit no we spend a lot of time encouraging people to stick to it and it's actually for everything that you stick to there's a huge opportunity cost involved right there's all the other things that you could have done and if you're sticking to something that you're negative expectancy - and I'm not saying money I mean I'm saying it might be negative expected happiness to it or negative expected health to it or negative expected whatever that and you're giving up the opportunity to go do something”